ni I ii~? ZichronNote The Journal of the San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society Volume XV, Number 1 February 1995

Dates in Bold type are meetings held or supported by the SFBA JGS This will be the only notice of Society meetings until the May ZichronNote Please transfer the dates to your calendar now, and plan to be with us.

Wed Feb 8 East Bay Genealogical Society meeting.Using the Oakland Family Histov Lihrar?, 10:WAM The Mormon Center, 4780 Lincoln Avenue, Oakland. Call 510-532-5947 for info. Sun Feb 19 JGS of Sacramento Field Trip. Tour of the Marysville Pioneer Jewish Cemetery. 10:30 AM Tour starts from the home of Jane Paskowitz in Wheatland. Call Joan at 633-9557 Mon Feb 20 Regular Meeting. Palo Alto. Congregation Kol Emeth, 4175Manuela Avenue near 7:30 PM Foothill Blvd. and Arastradero Road, Palo Alto Fri Mar 10 C. G. S. Family History Fair. Following Paper Trails Across the Coainents Sat Mar 11 Fashion Center, 8th Street between Brannan & Townsend, San Francisco. (See Insert) We'll have a table at this annual genealogical fair.

Sun Mar 19 Regular Meeting. San Francisco. Members Len Tranbman and Gail Todd 1:00 PM discuss how they created and published their new family history publications. (See p 3) Jewish Community Library, 14th Ave. at Balboa,San Francisco Mon Apr 17 JGS of Sacramento meeting. Preparation for Trip to Seminar and Research in 7:30PM Wa~hingronD.C. lris Bachman . Albert Einstein Residence Center, 1935 Wright St., Sacramento Mon Apr 24 Regular Meeting. PaloAlto.

Mon May 14 JGS of Sacramento Meeting. 2.7 Way.sto Tracea Maiden Name, Glenda Lloyd 7:30PM Albert Einstein Residence Center, 1935 Wright St., Sacramento Sun May 21 Regular Meeting. San Francisco. Mon Jun 19 Regnlar Meeting. Palo Alto. June 25-29 Fourteenth Summer Seminar on Jewish Genealogy, Hotel Washington, Washington, DC. Details JGS of Greater Washington, P. 0. Box 412, Vienna, VA 22183-0412 'Sun Jul 23 Regular Meeting. San Francisco. Mon Aug 21 Regular Meeting. Palo Alto. Sun Sep 17 Regular Meeting. San Francisco. Mon Oct 23 Regular Meeting. Palo Alto. Sun Nov 19 Regular Meeting. San Francisco. Mon Dec 18 Regular Meeting. Palo Alto. ZichmnNote-Journal of the San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society

ZichronNote Journal of the San Francisco Bay Area About This lssoe Jewish Genealogical Society This issue of ZichronNote features two major ZichronNote is published four times per year at the begin- items relating to Jewish cemeteries. On the positive ning of February, May, August, and November. Contribu- side, we reprint a progress report which appeared tion deadline is the 15th of the month preceding publica- several months ago by Arline Sachs, who is organiz- tion. The Editor reserves the right to edit all contributions. ing a monumental project to catalog and index Jew- ish burials throughout the world. Our Society started Familv Finder queries are free to Society members. to support this effort, and made initial submittals Non-members may place queries for $5.00 each limited to relating to the Bay Area, but we have had no volun- 25 words not including searcher's name, address and phone teer to replace Dan Peletz to focus our efforts. number. On the negative side, we reprint an appeal from Florence Marmor, who has discovered a plan to Corres~ondencerelating to items for publicaliou, and cover over a number of 19th Century Jewish graves requests for back issues should be addmsed to Bob Weiss, in the Mokom Sholom Cemetery in Queens, NY and 3916 Louis Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303-4541. to re-sell the plots. We reprint the list of burials in that cemetery to aid Florence locate relatives who Production Note: This issue of ZiclirorrNote has been might be able to preserve their relative's gravesite, uxnposed on an Apple@ MacintoshT" LC 111, and as an aid for readers to locate burial s~tesof rela- ClarisWorksTMV2.1v4software, and printed on an tives in New York. AppIeBStylewriter I1 printer. Contributions may be sub- A summary account is given of a recent meeting mitted on 3-112-inch floppy discs in either DOS or Mac- in Palo Alto on Hispanic Genealogy by two Hispa- intosh format. nic genealogists from San Jose. Both told of family traditions and ancestral names which would indicate Advertisins Display advertising will be accepted in that they are descendants of converroc (Spanish ZichronNote The initial rate for a 2-column inch (3-112 x Jews forceably converted in the 15th Century). 2 inch) insertion will be $lO.fK)per issue, quarter-page ad Another recent meeting dealt with Gaucher Disease, $20.00, half-page ad $35.00, full-page ad $60.00. Ads a genetic disease prevalent among Ashkenazic Jews. must be camera-ready, relatc to Jewish genealogy, and be Our November article on the beta-thalassemiaproject in good taste. was picked up by Gene Starn of the Orlando JGS and will be repeated in the Heritage Florida Jewish members hi^ in the SFBA JGS is open lo anyone inter- News. We received a warm thanks from Stanley esled in Jewish genealogy. Dues are $20.00 per calendar Diamond who credits the genealogical networks for year. The Society is "exempt" per section 501(c)(3) of the getting the word out about this important research. IRS code. Make check out to "SFBA JGS" and send to: He also informed us of the recent formation of the Shenill Laszlo, Treasurer, 34 Craig Ave., Piedmont, CA JGS of Montreal. 9461 1. We are reprint a useful article by Linda Cantor, President of the JGS of Long Island, orig~nally President: Bob Weiss ...... 415-424-1622 printed in Llneuge, and reprinted in Michpuchu , on Vice President: Martha L. Wise ...... 415-5649927 how to obtain photographs of the early immigrant Secretary: Jerry Delson ...... 415-493-0403 ships that brought our ancestors "across the pond". Treasurer: Sherrill Stern Laszlo ...... 510-655-6789 Our book reviews include an original review by Membership: Sita Likuski ...... 510-538-4249 Bob Weiss of the new edition of the classic Jewish Program: (open position) ...... 415.4241622 genealogy beginners reference From Gmerution to Librarian: Dana Kurtz ...... 415-W1-6761 Gemrution by Arthur Kurzweil. E-Mail Address: [email protected] Our Genealogical Computing column gives instructions for computer tyros on how to establish Meetines Odd-numbered months- 3rd Sunday of service on JEWISHGEN. the Jewish genealogical each month, slarting at 1:00 PM at the Jewish Commun- bulletin board. ity Library, 601 14th Avenue (at Balboa), San Franciscc,. Member Irwin Keller sends us a translation of a brochure he picked up on a recent research trip in Even-numbered months- 3rd Monday Berlin detailing the holdings of the Berlin Jewish of each month starting at 730 PM at Congregation Kol Archives, and member Ruth Mayo sends us the Emeth, 4175 Manuela Avenue (near Arastradero & 1995 National Archive workshop schedule. Foothill), Palo Alto. Bob Weiss

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Additions to Our Library We have been actively acquiring reference and research materials for our library. Some of this material is purchased from your dues, but much of it is from member donations. An update to the Society's holdings appears below. Call our Librarian Dana Kurtz at 415-921-6761at least 48 hours prior to a Society meeting if you wish to use or borrow any reference. Title Author or Publisher Date Pam Publisher Beginner's Guide to Hispanic Genealogy, A Flores. N. &Ludwig. P. 1993 58pb Western Book/Journal Press Researcher's Guide to U.S. Census Availability Hamilton, Ann 8. 1992 165pb Heritage Books, Inc, Bowie, MD NYPL Book of How & Where to Look it Up Harris, Shewood, Ed. 1991 382hc Stonesong Press From Generation to Generation, Revised Edition Kurzweil. Arthur 1994 388 HarperCaliins, New York, NY Memoirs of Gluckel von Hameln, The Lowenthal translation 1977 295pb Schoken Books. New York Handy Book to English Genealogy. The Mellen, Rachael 1990 218pb Heritage Books, Bowie MD Newspaper Genealogical Column Directory Milner, A. C. 1992 1 12pb Heritage Books, Inc. Conversation with My Father. A Todd, Gail 1994 34pb GailTodd Oreckovsky Family, The: From Russia to America Traubman. Len 1994 315hc The Oreck Foundation, San Mateo. CA The last two books on the list have been gen- Welcome New Members erously donated by their authors to our library. We are very proud to announce that we ended last year with 180 members. We welcome our new The Oreckovskv Familv-From Russia to members with the hope that you become active in the Ainerica , published by the Oreck Foundation, Society. Benefits of belonging are enhanced when 1994, donated by the editor, and Society member, you attend meetings and participate in our varied Dr. Len Traubman activities. Please communicate your interests, desires, and complaints to your officers. Make this *A Conversarion with Mv Farher-An Oral His- YOUR Society. rory of Fred Gevxer , self-published by the author Gail Todd in i994 Ronald E. Arons Oakland Hubert E. Dubb Belmont Publishing Your Family History Lawrence & Haniet Fried Palo Alto March 1995 Meeting Annonncement Martin Gewing Dublin Our March meeting in San Francisco will feature Stanley H. Judd San Francisco Len Traubman and Gail Todd, who will display Bernard Kaufman, Jr. San Francisco their books and describe how they put them together William Keating Palo Alto and had them published. The scopes of their books Frieda Koppl San Francisco differ, as do publication techniques. This will be an Myra Ann Lappin Menlo Park excellent opportunity for members to see examples Lee F. Miller San Francisco of methods of preserving and displaying their family Roy Ogus Palo Alto histories and to question others who have recently Irving Olender Los Gatos published to gain from their experiences. Evelyn Perl San Jose Alan M. Portis Berkeley National Archives-Pacific Sierra Region Michael Poulin Oakland 1995 Workshop Schedule Jasmine Senyak Oakland Register in advance to guarantee a place in the class and save monev. Cost is $12.00 in advance. $15.00 Donations for Library Acquisitions at the door. ~okactRose Mary Kennedy at 415- Our Society has recently acquired tax-free status as 876-9009. an exempt educational and cultural organization, and ~at~eb11, 10:WAM-3:00PM, VolunteerTrain- dues and donations may be considered as deductable ing-Not open to the public contributions according to tax code. We would like Fri Mar 10,900AM-1:00PM, Beginning Genea- to give special thanks to the following members who logical Workshop donated above their basic dues level to help acquire Fri Jun 30,9:00AM-1:00PM, Passenger Arrivals important publicationsfor our Society library: and Naturalization Records Fri Aug 11.900AM-12 Noon Military-Part I: Pre- Sharon Fingold Manfred Linder Revolution to War of 1812 Carol Hanie Ruth Mavo Fri Sep 8,9:00AM-12 Noon Military-Part 11: Civil Merle ~ra&rnan Carol ~Arrison War to World War 11 Shernll Stem Lasllo Edward'Tonovitz

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...... ,...... :::. . :., ,:: .r...... :...... :: .... :':. ::.: ..'::"p~g~. ~E~GS::':;.':;,. .:y:;.:, ,,Ilere got it "1 don't Lno,\.", has ...... been told since shc was a child never to rat meat and Hispanic Genealogy -Sources of Interest drink milk at the same time. ~ndnever eat blood. to Sephardic Researchers Her grandmotherwashed the chicken until there was Norma Patricia Flores no more blood in the meat. She never knew why. Patsy Castro Ludwig "That's just was the way it is." Other "give-away" customs are braided bread, circumcision, burning of The subject meeting of the San Francisco Bay candles in the closet, burial without a casket, signs Area Jewish Genealogical Society was held on on the doorpost, and washing before eating. December 19,1994 in Palo Alto. Our speakers are In areas such as New Mexico, where formal Hispanic genealogists from San jose, California, Catholicis~ntook hold, practice was more devout, and are the co-authors of the book A Beginner's and the secret practices tended to die out. In other, Guide to Hispmic Genealogy, reviewed in the less devout areas such as Nuevo Leon, Catholic November 1994 issue of ZichronNote. Our speak- practice and church attendence was more for ers are also staff members at the San Jose FHC on appearance, and the secret practice of the crypto Thursdays, 6-9 PM. The FHC is located at 4977 Jews persisted. These Crypto Jews were often of the San Filippe Road, San Jose, near Evergreen Col- business class, the females were. educated and were lege. teachers. Many of the records discussed by Norma and Names are the other indicators of Jewish back- Patsy are found at the Mormon Family History Poround. A list ofL'typical" converso surnames was Library, and are obtainable through local Family included in the extensive handout provided to mem- History Centers. The records are accessed through bers at the meeting. Castro and Flores, two of the the Family History Locality Catalog under the local- speakers' family names, are Jewish names. When ity of interest. researchino a Hispanic first name, always try to put For each locality of interest one finds records of a "Jose" o7'~aria"in front of the compound name. the Catholic Church. For Spain and Mexico one Hispanics often have three first names and two sur- would not expect to find specific Jewish records. names, and often used these common first names since after conversion the individual records would with their traditional names. Names were often be found among the church records, and admission changed before or after leaving Spain for the new of Jewish practice would be fatal . For this reason, land. There was a long discussion of Hispanic sur- "converso" records cannot be found1 . names which are on the meeting tape. But Jewish ancestry has a way of bubbling up Familial names were often lost during mass bap- through certain family and given names and prac- tisms, taking of baptizer's name, not carrying indi- tices among Catholics. An example was given by ginous Indian names. and naming of bastard child- Norma Flores. The names Daniel and Abraham have ren. been in Norma's family for many generations, and There are many inquisition records available on her grandfather requested that she name her son microfiche in the FHL. These records often contain Abraham. A unique kind of bread, .semitas (Semitic genealogical lines of the subject families. The major bread) has always been eaten in her family during portions of these records have been copied and are lent. So Jewish background persists and is evident available at the Hebrew University in Je~salem.The in names and practiced customs. open or hidden2 . Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley has many original Talk about Jewish background is usually accompa- inquisition records. Records document family blood- nied by a "shiss" and a whisper. lines and the permission to leave Spain to come lo Many of the Hispanic families with whom North America. Many conversos came as soldiers Norma and Patsy come in contact talk quietly about and as ships' crews. the customs practiced secretly by their families. Fre- Prior restrictions on Spanish church records quently the meaning of these practices has been lost have recently been lifted, and these records may now but they are still done as family traditions. Norma's be borrowed and viewed at local FHCs. Records are mother has a "star of David pendant which has sparse from Raja California. Some mission and mili- been handed down through the family. When asked tary records are available. Some records are cata- logued in a confusing manner, and are hard to find. aconverso is a Jew forceably converted to Christianity Military records are easy to find at Bancroft, but the sometimes referred to by the derogatory term marrano Mormon equivalents are filed under Chihuahua. Part (swine) of this confusion arises because during the Colonial "crypto-Jews"is the term applied to conversos who period military records were prepared and filed in practice Jewish ritual secretly triplicate, with one copy filed locally, one sent to the

February 1995 Page 4 Volume XV, Number 1 ZichronNote-Journal of the San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society capitmiu~generules(general captaincies-roughly librarian Dana Kurtz at least 48 hours prior to a the military headquarters for the area), and one to the meeting. Copies of the tape are available for $8.00. colonial administrator in Spain. Meeting minutes by R. Weiss. Catholic church parish records contain birth, maniage, and death records. Some mamage records Gaucher Disease are accompanied by extensive family genealogies. Kim Hart & Seymour Packman Mission records are found at the Archivos de lu Lrc~lndius in Seville, Spain. Research there is diffi- Gaucher disease is a genetic disorder that cult. Before being allowed to do research one must comes in three varieties. The most common variety have two letters of recommendation from the Span- affects 1 in 450 Ashkenazic Jews whereas among all ish Consulate to prove that you are a serious Americans only 1 person in 40,000 is affected. For researcher. On-location research in Mexico is the those affected the disease may be serious, but it same. Records are not catalogued and records are responds to treatment. For many, the disease is stored in cartons, copying facilities are rare and mild. Tay-Sachs, the better known Ashkenazic abstracts must be made of the data. Spanish census genetic disease is always fatal. records are excellent. The wife's maiden name is At our November 20, 1% meeting in San given. Francisco, Kim Hart, Genetic Counselor and Sey- Subsequent discussion included migratory pat- mour Packman, MD, from the University of Califor- terns, racial mixing, reconversion, and personal nia School of Medicine described the cause, effects, experiences of convrr.w families. Two films on the incidence and treatment of the disease. subject were highly recommended. The first, "El In the presentation, we learned the locations on Santo Officio" is a film on the burial customs that the chromosomes where the mutations may occur, distinguish the converso. It was shown in a Euro- and we learned the arithmetic of the spread of pean film festival, but is not available here. The sec- Gaucher disease. For a child to be affected, both ond film is "The Last Marannos", a film on the clan- parents must be camers. Among Ashkenazic Jews, destine practices of the Portuguese Jews. 1 person in 10 is a camer. In the general popula- The hand-out included thefollowingmaterials: tion, 1 person in 100 is a camer. *Meetingoutline(l page) If not treated, Gaucher disease may result in a *The Long Road Back, by Patricia G. Snyder, grossly enlarged spleen and liver and deterioration of reprint of article on Conversos (3 pages) the bones, particularly at joints. In serious cases, *Surname list of individuals tried by the lnquisi- the person is completely disabled. tion (1 page) The biochemical problem created by the genetic ~Jewishnessof Northeastern Mexican Culture, by mutation is expressed as a deformed enzyme. Dr. Carlos Hidalgo (9 pages) Enzymes are supposed to act as catalysts, but if -European Origins, (4 pages) deformed, they fail to act. A treatment that has *Montana, Francisco, notes on an early Sephardic become available and that is evolving is to give Jew who was an officer under Cortes (2 pages) patients dosages of a replacement enzyme on a -Alonso Nunez De Hinoiosa, notes on an early monthly or more frequent basis. Spanish officer in Mexico (2 pages) Couples planning to have children may con- *Directorv of Ethnic Groups, race designations sider genetic testing and counselling. An individual found in parish registries in the Americas ( l page) can be tested to see if he or she is a carrier, but =Pedigreechart blank form (1 page) neither of the speakers recommended this as a rou- *Family Group Record blank form (2 pages) tine procedure unless there was a history of the dis- *Book List (I page) ease in the family. The fetus can also be tested, but *Publication list and order form, Sephardic House even if the mutation were present in the fetus the par- (2 pages) ents would be told that the disease would respond to *The Jews of Portugal, talk by Ambassador chemical treatment. This complexity indicates the Colette Avital, June 6, 1993 (2 pages) advantage of having contact with a genetic counsel- *Genealogical Research on Greek Jewry, notes on lor such as Ms. Hart. a talk by Dr.Yitzchak Kerem at SFBA JGS meeting The study of the incidence of genetic diseases (2 pages) among Ashkenazic Jews and their Gentile neighbors *miscellaneous abstracts on Sephardic research in Eastern Europe indicates that there was not much from ZichronNote (2 pages) admixture of the two populations for hundreds of Copies of any or all of the above handouts are years. This is a general conclusion that Jewish available on request. The recording of the meeting is genealogists can examine in their own family trees. available on a loan basis to members. Please call our Review by Jerry Delson

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...... -...... ,...... :: = ...... ,, ...... :3.:' . .ChWA . . . . l)IAE.:,m...... - ...... EAaCH :., .. 7.2' above. If you can use that it will make it a lot easier . 9, t .. -- ..- -. for me to put it all together later. UPDATE ON U.S. CEMETERY PROJECT If you wish to use your own data base then the From Arlir~eSachs fields should be as shown below. It was important to limit the size of a record to 256 bytes (characters) Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 125931 -0500 so that it would be compatible with various pro- grams and computers. The data should then be sent From: [email protected],.. 0 com (Arline Sachs) in a delimited format. Delimited means "marks Subiect: CEMETERY REPORT around each field and a comma separating the ear Genealogist, fields". I now have over 135files of data representing Last name 15 over 2000 different cemeteries. I have available a First and other names 30 retrieval program that will access the data using Death date 9 (yyyymmdd) menus. This will work for DOS only. I have also Place of death 15 created a program to enter the data at a cemetery. Birth date 9 (~~~~mmdd) You can get a copy of the data, and the program to Birth place 15 enter data by sending me aformatted disk (any size, Cemetery 25 but it must hold at least 400K), a return label, post- Location in cemetery 20 age to cover the return mail and I will make you a FatherIMother 45 copy. Informant/Relation 35 The following is a review of the stages and Comments 65 where we are now. Funeral Home 15 Stage 1: Creating a master list of all cemeter- Spouse 20 ies (including foreign ones). They can be all-Jewish I have had a number of people send this infor- cemeteries or any that have a Jewish section, orjust mation to me already, and 1 have about 40,000 some Jews, but please indicate it if it not all-Jewish. names so far. However I do not have it in a format In this list please include: ready for distribution yet. My husband and I are name of cemetery working on putting this together in a reasonable for- location of cemetery mat and hope to have it ready by the seminar next street address year. If you have data available please send it to me. city, state, country additional instructions about where it is Stage 3: In this stage a master index of all the years used names of those in the cemeteries will be created. I contact person (This may be the caretaker, expect that the master index will include: whoever has the key) deceased's full name and how to gain access, (the society caring for date of death (or burial) it, the synagogue, or even the person submitting the reference to cemetery and where find the full data, who would help interested people.) data base phone number of contact person Kee~in mind that this is to be an INDEX of the synagogue(s) who use(d) it data and not all the pertinent data will be in the approximate size (30 or 3000 graves) index. Names will alsoeventually be included in the allJewish or not People Finder with reference to the cemetery. The Everyone may not be able to get all this information, names will be accessible via the spelling or via so just send whatever you have. Do not use a tiny Soundex. font to get more than 80 characters per line. It must Please also contact any local (or not so local) be in a form that I can change to ASCII. WordPer- Historical Societies. They may have already done fect is fine. There are no special field sizes needed some of this or may be willing to help with this pro- for this. ject. Synagogues and funeral homes may also have Occasionally a book has been written about a some of th~sinformation. cemetery and this information is also included if it Please submit data to me on an IBM-compat- has been sent to me. ible floppy disk. I can read any size or density. Data may he in Wordperfect, Word, Lotus, DRase Stage 2: Indexing of the contents of local or any equivalent, or in ASCII. Just let me know cemeteries. Several projects of this type are already which it is so I can figure out how to read it. almost complete. The program that you can use is Remember that even if you don't have all the the JGSCEMET that is on the disk mentioned above info about a particular cemetery. please send

February 1995 Page 6 Volume XV, Number 1 ZichronNote-Journal of the San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society what you have. It will probably be more that the 4. We do plan to have the Phase I1 information next person knows. available for everyone at the seminar, but a question 1 have found someone to translate Mac disks, of distribution will need to be addressed. Does so if you have a Mac and were not participating for anyone out there know where one can get CDs that reason, that is no longer an excuse.. (:->) made if the data is supplied? Probably 15or 20 Send DOS disks to: Mac users send disk to: megs worth of data and programs by then. Arline Sachs Dave Fox 5. The following statement has been suggested 6212 Thomas Drive %9 Placid Ct. by a lawyer to be placed at the beginning of the Springfield, VA 22150 Arnold, MD 21012 retrieval program for the cemetery project. Please USA USA feel free to comment on this andor to make sugges- My phone number is 703-971-2092 tions, additions or deletions. I understand that there My E-Mail address is: is no legal way we can prevent any conversions [email protected] Please do from this, but perhaps they will morally comply.. NOT send me data via E-Mail because I cannot "This listing is donated to the public properly capture it. Use it for messages only. If it domain and may be freely copied. Under no is just a small amount of data it can be sent on this conditions can this listing be sold or used in BBS. any commercial fashion or for purposes of Dave can also give you the data that has been proselytism." collected in Mac form, but without the program to 6. Please send me vour e-mail comments to access it nicely. You will get a copy of each individ- n\.sachacirvccscent.bit&tor by general mail lo 6212 ual file. In DOS the total is over 400,000 Thomas Drive, Springfield,. - VA 221 50- 1220 USA. compressed, so keep that in mind if you send a If you are on internet and have trouble with my e- disk(s) to Dave. If you write to me the data is mail address you need to go through a gateway; automatically compressed on the disk and unpacked therefore try this: only as needed, so it currently still fits on nvsacha%[email protected] a DSDD disk 3 112" disk or a HD disk. P.S. I just spoke to someone at the United States HELP - HELP - I NEED SOME HELP AND Commission for the Preservation of America's Her- SOME COMMENTS PLEASE itage Abroad. I have been working with them and they will forward their material to me when they fin- This project is mushrooming quickly and while I ish. They have a questionnaire about any cemetery. will continue working on it, I do need some help If you are going abroad and think you might be vis- desperately. Specifically: iting any cemetery, they would like to have you fill 1. Subchairperson for various areas that would out the questionnaire. You can get a copy by calling handle what I am doing, ie put together the data as it them at (202) 254-3824, or writing to 1101 15th St., comes in. Joachim Mugdan in Germany has volun- NW , Suite 504 Washington, DC 20005. They will teered to do this for Germany and is currently forward the questionnaire to you. Their emphasis working on that. How about volunteering for an currently is eastern Europe, Poland, Austria, etc. area that you are already familiar with? It could be a state, city, or country, or whatever you suggest. New York City Burials 2.1 wrote to the CCAR (Central Conference of Flora and Herbert Gursky of Great Falls, VA have American Rabbis) which is the umbrella organiza- compiled a list of burials in the New York City area tion for reform Rabbis. They put a notice into one from the landsmumhaften societies of Lysyanka of their newsletters and I had quite a number of and Tagancha in Ukraine, and Racioz, Sokol- responses from individual Rabbis who knew of out- ka, & Kuznica in Poland. The information of-the-way cemeteries around the country. 1 need includes the name of the individual, and, when it is someone to do this for the Orthodox, Conservative, available, birth and death dates, ages, Jewish name and Reconst~ctionists.I just wrote to the Rabbini- and annotations of family relationships. For infor- cal Assembly, (conservative) but have not had an mation concerning specific individuals write to: The answer yet. I did not have a particular name to con- Gurskys, 10201 Walker Lake Drive, Great Falls, tact. PLEASE can someone contact the other two? VA 22066. Please enclose a SASE. or least give me the addresses! 3. I asked some quesrions last time ahout how Washington DC Funeral Records the in&\ idual data should be retrieved. As a result Rita Margolis, 301 -530-351 1 is directing the crea- of those responses, we are retrieving on either the tion of a surname index from Danzansky-Goldberg spelling or Soundex. funeral ledgers covering 1920-1970's. (Mishpucha

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Relatives Buried in Mokom Sholom or Bayside Cemeteries, NYC?

JGS (New York) members David Gevertzman, Florence Marmor and David Priever have researched a paper trail that sug- gests the existence of over lI,(XX) unmarked graves in the Mokom Sholom Cemctery in OL(me Park, Queens. Between IS41 and 1901 the Free Burial Fund Society of Congregation Derech Amuno, a Division of Unitcd Hebrew Charities and the origi- nal owner of Mokom Sholom, buried 11,132 persons too poor to pay for burials elsewhere. This information was found in records of the organi7ation, to which these enterprising genealogists were led by findings of death certiI'imtes specifying that Jacob Finkelstone was the sole undertaker ior all these burials. It waq not uncommon for free burial societies not to provide gravestones, and the families involved were typically unable to afford them. Furthermore, many of these burials were oC children, and even il there werc stones, thcy would bc small oncs. The ravages of time and vandalism could have caused these stones to disappear. Thus, although the northeast comcr in the back of the cemetery has almost no stones, Marmor, Gevertzman, and Priever believe this is the area where mtxt of the 11,000 burials took place. They even have found a 1929aerial photograph that has markings which appear to be headsloncs in this area The current management of Mokom Sholom is dubious aq to the evidence in this matter, preferring to believe that the vacant area is the results of abandoned plots. While they have not shown much sympathy tcnvards the issuc, thcy also claim that they have no plans for new burials in the area. Although it is not against Jewish law to layer burials (According to the Code of Jewish Law Chapter CXCIX, Section 5 "Onc coffin should not be placed upon another unless six hand-brcadths ol earth intervenebetween them"-Ed), the intrepid JGS genealogists are ctmcemed that the area be proved to contain these uni- dentified remains. The Queens 7iibrmne gave the issuc publicity in a lengthy article in their 0cu)ber 10-26 issuc. Anyonc interested in awisting in the effort to preserve this burial ground should contact Florence Marmor at 718-2S2269. From Iktror , VoI. Ih, No. 1, Fall 1994 According lo Florence Mmor, the manager of Mokom Sholom Cemetery claims that the back area of thc ccmetcry, which ~~nstilutesapproximately one third of the total area of the cemetery. is virgin land, and he intends lo p)ur earth over the area which has no monuments and then resell the land for graves. This amounts to approximately one half of thc section. He also intends to pour earth over a ravine where there are free burial graves, and sell thesc graves. Thc only way lo stop him is by voting as a plot owner against him. The following is a list of persons buried in the area in question. Most of them were buried in the Hebrew Free Burial Section, which ran from 1866 to 1901. No burial records can be found between 1866-1W1. Records of the United Hebrew Charities organization which ran this free burial in aqsociation with Congregation Derech Amuno of New York, NY show Jacob Finkelstone as their undertaker. All death certificates for Mokom Sholom Cemetery state that the person is interred in BavsideCemetery. Anyone with information please contact Florence Marmor at 740X Ylth Avenue, Omne Park, NY 11416, Tel. 718-296-2269. The above information and list have ken supplied lo ZirhronNole by Florence Marmor by E-mail

Dashower Society Rosie Brook FawlGr10 Roiza daughter of Pesach died 3/11/17 age 27mother Jennie Adter Row1 Gr3 death cert#6009 Brooklyn, N.Y. Tsharneh daughter of Aharon died 4/1/11 age 28 wife and mother death certW77 Brooklyn, N.Y. Rosa Kalnltzky RowlGr11 Ruchel daughter of Yehuda Lev died 8/27/17 age 53 wife and Rachel Popick Row1 Gr4 mother death cert#5763 Bronx, N.Y. listed in index as Rose Ruchel daughter of Yeruchum Fishel died 1/3/13 24 Tevet 5673 age 34 wife andmother Rosie Finkelstein RowlGr13 Raitzeh daughter of Chaim Eliezer died 10/17/18 age 30 wife Mollie Lev i ne Row1 Gr6 andmother death cert#22263 Brooklyn, N.Y. age 28 Malke daughter dZalman died3/4/14 age 23 6Adar 5674 mother death cert #4801 Brooklyn, N.Y. Dora Tempelman Row 1 Gr 14 Devorah daughter of Yacov died 6/27/17age 19 Rebecca Fuchs Row1 Gr7 Rivka daughter of Nachman died 8/16/14 age 32 wife and Anna Goldman Row1 Gr15 mother death cert #I6062 Brooklyn. N.Y. listed in index as Cham Etta daughter of Meyer died 1/24/15 age 14 Rebecca Fux Haviv daughter of Arye Row1 Gr16 Bessie Poloman Row1 Gr8 died 5/2/15 NOTE: In Hebrew. Lamb on top of monument. Baila daughter of Yosef died 3x36 age 72 mother death cert#7391 Brooklyn, N.Y. listed in index as Bessie Yetta Oxman RowlGr17 Polowanage65 Yenteh daughter of Chaim Dovdied 1/23/14 NOTE: Very oM stone with lamb death cert #2730 N. Y. . N.Y. age 20 days

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Sheindl Poitarak Fiow2Gr1 Private Burial. arave after Dashever Section Sheindl daughter of Leizer Yosef died 4/1/48 age 75 mother Notes: Jennie PoRarak died in Danbury Hospital, Danbury, Jennie Delit Row 1 Gr 1 Conn. See below William Ponarak, Row 4 Gr 15. Sheindl daughter of Haiman born 4/12/1895 died 12/29/18 wife of Louis Delit death cert #I 1271 Bronx, N.Y., died Sadie Adler Row2 Gr 2 12/29/18, married, born 4/12/1895, age 23 years, 8 months, Shainah Yisil daughter of Moishe died 6/28/31 age 68 mother 17 days, born U. S. A,, lived in N. Y. ail her life, occupation from I. J. Morris Funeral Parlor - Celia Adier buried 6/29/31 housewife, father Herman Davidson, mother Kate Kupfer- death cert #I4666 buried at Bayside Cemetery. Residence at man, both Russian, died of influenza and bronchial pneumo- time of death 945 Saratoga Ave. Brownsvilie. Brooklyn, N.Y. nia, undertaker S. Reich, 127 W. 116th St., N. Y. , N.Y., cemetery iisted as Bayside. Died at 1039 intervale Ave., Sarah Smith Row 2 Gr 8 Bronx. N.Y. Sarah daughter of Schmuel Wolenski died 10/17/18 age29 wife & mother Monument says erected in memofy of Sarah, Free Burial Section beloved wife of Frank Smith. death cert #22407 Brookiyn, N.Y. Levi Wertheim died 4/23/1882, age 24 death cert #420360, Bettye Becker Row2Gr11 age 44, tailor, from Gaiicia 2 years, 5 Hester St., N. Y. , N.Y., Bayla Eti daughter of Misha died 5/21/25 buried 4/26/1882, died 4/26/1882, undertaker Jacob Finkelstone,328 W. 36th St., N. Y. , N.Y. Naomi Asbyll Row2Gr12 born 8/7/36 died as a child Joseph Schnitzer Yosef son of Menachem hacohen died 6/5/1884, death cert sent by Leonard Schnitzer, great- Morris Gitcher Row4 Gr 5 grandson, #493094. age 55, single, occupation peddler, birth Moishe son of Aharon died 5/22/17son and brother place Germany, in U.S. 2 years, father's and mother's names death cert #I1619 Brooklyn, N.Y. buried 5/29/17age 12 unknown, place of death Believue Hospitai E. 26th St., N. Y. . N.Y., residence before admission 8 Elizabeth St., N. Y. , N.Y., Sandor Kolnitzky Row4Gr6 buried June 6, 1884, undertaker Jacob Finkelstone, 353 W. Sandor son of Nachman HaCohen Kolnitzky died 7/25/17 age 42nd St., N. Y. , N.Y. 62 husband and father Mickael Max age 4 mos. death cert #512803 died 1211711884 Emanuei Burshock Row4Gr8 undertaker Jacob Finkelstone 58 St. Marks Pi., N. Y. , N.Y. born 4/30/01 died 11/1/17death cert #21280 Brooklyn, N.Y. iisted in index as Emanuel Burshak Joseph Beck age 24 days, death cert #512804, died 12/18/1884 undertaker. Jacob Finkeistone. Sadie Adler bet. Row 3 & 4 behind grave 8 Shprintze daughter of Yonah died 5/23/21 age 37 Camille Roos age 3 years died 12/19/1884 death cert #512884 undertaker Jacob Finkelstone, 58 St. Marks Place, Nathan Adler Row4Gr10 N Y. N.Y. Nachman son of Tsvi died 11/8/18 age 58 years husband & father death cert #28686 Brooklyn, N.Y. Isabelle Frances age 4 death cert #512805 died 12/19/1884 undertaker Jacob Finkelstone, 58 St. Marks PI., N. Y. , N.Y. MoeKlrsch Row4Grll Moishe Yitzhak son of Yochanon born 111 /I898 died 1/27/19 Joseph Beck age 24 days death cert #512804 died son death cert #3956 N. Y. , N.Y. iisted in index as Morris 12/28/1884 undertaker Jacob Finkeistone, 58 St. Marks PI., N. Y. . N.Y. P. Botkin Row4Gr12 Pesach Zev son of Sholom HaLevi Botkilin died 4/24/20 age Joseph Keller age 1 year death cert #513750 died 79 father death cert #14906 N. Y. . N.Y. (9 was difficult to 12/28/1884 read) Jacob Finkelstone. 58 St. Marks PI., N. Y. . N.Y.

WliiamTaleisnik Row4Gr13 Henrietta Zorn 26 years death cert 513751 died 12/28/1884 Zevson of Ephrairn died 4/23/22 age 25 years husband undertaker Jacob Finkelstone. 58 St. Marks PI., N. Y. , N.Y.

Abraham Burshock Row4 Gr 14 Jacob Kalensche age 2.112 yrs death cert #513752 d~ed Avraham son of Chaim died 2/25/26 age 46 husband and 17/28/1884 undertaker Jacob Flnkelsione 58 St. Marks PI , N. father Y ,NY Marks Rose age4 mos. death cert #513753 died 12/28/1884 William Poltarak Row4Gr15 undertaker Jacob Finkeistone. 58 St. Marks PI., N. Y. , N.Y. Zev son of Asher Zelig died 7/6/20 age 45 husband and father Note: Wife is Sheindl (Jennie), row 2 Gr 1. death cert #20575 Meyer Leib Zorn age 3 months death cert #516482 died N. Y., N.Y. 1/26/1885 undertaker Jacob Finkelstone

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Rosie Slmerrnan age 1 year death cen X516573 di Simon E. Nachman died 8/22/1892 112611885 undertaker Jacob F~nkelstone Sarah Davis died c. August, 1892 Morris Sarawsri age 21 days death cert #516471 died 1/26/1885 undertaker Jacob Finkeistone Juda Brush died 10/26/1892

DwoseGreenstein age 47 years death cert #516470 died Kreina Lehrnan died 1/9/1893 1/26/1885 undertaker Jacob Finkelstone lgnatz Fried died 1/14/1893 Nathan Bass age 9 months death cert #516609 died 1/27/1885 undertaker Jacob F~nkelstone Sally Katz enclosed by fence died 3/5/1893 infant

Jesse Cahn age 1 year death cert #516M)8 died 1/27/1885 Ida Mendelson died 3/31/1893 age 38 undertaker Jacob Finkelstone Osias Frenzel died 5/16/1893 Renus Lea Lorens age 1 year death cert#516701 died 1/28/1885 undertaker Jacob Finkelstone. Meyer Platzner died 5/25/1893 age 59

Samuel Llchtensteln age 5 years death cert #516700 died Henrietta Moskowltz died 7/10/1893 age 28 1/28/1885 undertaker Jacob Finkelstone Sally Stark died 5/7/1894 age 24 sister Heattie Heolt age 13 days death cert#516802 died 1/29/1885 undertaker Jacob Finkelstone, 58 St. Marks PI., N. Ida Schwartz died 6/17/1894 age 65 grandmother Y.. N.Y. Samuel silver died 6/18/1894 age 34, death cert #19928, Rebecca Erlich age 2 years death cert #516801 died died June 15, 1894, buried 6/15/1894. age 3 years 6 months. 1/29/1885 undertaker Jacob Finkelstone, 58 St. Marks Pi. N born U. S., father Moisha, mother Rachel, born Russia, Y. , N.Y. address 466 E. 150th St., N. Y. , N.Y. undertaker Jacob Fin- keistone, 328 E. 52nd St., Alexander Bleier, N. Y. City Death Cert#22873 Manhattan died 7/16/1888, age 33 years, 11 mnths and 3 days, N. Y. , Max ? son of Baruch died 1894 poss. August married, father Solomon Bleier, born Germany mother Scharlot Rudnitzborn Germany, died at 41 Ridgest.. N. Y., N.Y., Schga Greenstein died 911894 undertaker J. Finkelstone. 343 E. 52nd St., N. Y. , N.Y., From great-grandson, Howard T. Cervantes, Jr. buried Belga Orenstein died 9/24/1894 7/18/1t388, wife Elizabeth Rothman, had children including grandmother of Howard Cervantes. isaac Leventhal died 10/23/1894

Esther Price nee Breslnger died 6129/189? age 25 Lena Schleimer died 5/7/8895 age22

W ???? died 6/5/1890 at the other end of the alcove farthest Israel L. Fa usty did 511 911895 age 54 grave with cement covering grave. Beiia Krigeler (?) born 6/13/1884 died 7/1/1895 Sarah Davis 1892 Solomon Gewirtz died 7/16/1895 ?father Eliezer death cert Nathan Greenberg died 1892 #24822 Manhattan. found in street dead at 225 Rivington St.. N. Y. . N.Y., coroneh case, died from carbolic acid poisoning, age 72, married, merchant, born Russia, in U. S. 4 years, 2 years N. Y. , father Leizer born Russia, mother Sarah, born ?Hoffman died 2/28/1892 Russia. buried July 17. 1895 by Jacob Finkelstone. 328 E. 52nd St., N. Y. . N.Y. israel Hoffman died 2/28/1892 Bernard Fraenkel dii2/4/1896 Rosa Rosen???berg did 3/11/1897 or 1892 Annie Weinzweig died 3/31/1896 age 37 Rebecca Kat z died 311 811 892 Robie Morganstern died 6/2/1896 or 8 Reisel bas Arie b. 1852 mother Rosie Glassner nee Mandel died 3/31/1892 or 7 Pearl Alexenberg did6/9/1896 age 29 ? Haber died 6/13/1892 Bernie Bernhelm died 6/23/1896?

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Moritz Lampl died 6/26/1896 writing in German mother Katie born Russia, undertaker Jacob Finkelstone.

Esther Wolf died 7/7/1896 age 41 certiY710544 Minnie Geiger Row2Gr2 Nee Schon Died 916KKI age 34 Wlfe and Mother Joseph Bernstein died 2/19/1897? Death cert WE444 Manhattan, died 9/6/00, not buried until 9/9/00, death occurred at 335 E. 719 St., N. Y. , N.Y., age 30 Pessie Schimmel did 11/4/1897 age34 years, 11 months and 18 days, married, born in Lippitz, Aus- tria, in U. S. 10 years, 10 months Father Joseph Schon born in Lippitz, Austria. Mother Barbara no last name. Cemetery listed as Bayside. Died of carcinoma of the heart, heart fai- Morris Rosenfeld died 2/5/1898 age 32 lure. Doctor Alfred Schwab, 182 E. 72nd St., N. Y. , N.Y., undertaker J. Finkelstone and Son. 356- 2nd Ave., N Y . NY ignatz Schwartz died 2/9/1898 age48 Moses Sebey Nathan Schwartz died 6/2/1899 or 8 age 26 Leon Srherner (?) Elka Wolfman died 6/12/1898 age55 Max Levinger Mary Beitlerdii 11/8/1898age38 lsidore Fine HenanSchindler died 11/24/1898 age44 Anton Sattler Abraham Hornstein died 11/28/1898 age 22 Leopold ? RosieGrushow behind 211899 might be 1900 Barbara Ledeben (?) Max Levinger died 2t2411899 age 60 Elka Wolf Bernard Fartig died 3/15/1899 age 40 Moses Lightig Tiliie Steinberger died 4/1/1899 age 22 Ida Mendelson Harry Marks in the next row possibly 911899 or could be 1900 ?Wolf George Rich died 9/19/1899 age 35 or 85 Ida Schwartz Anton Sattler died 10/2/1899 age 69 father Nathan Schwartz Wlii (?) Greenberg could be 1900 Private Plots at Mokom Sholom Abraham Cohen could be 1900 Morris Cohen d 412f73 age 76 beloved father, grandfather Sloime Stern death cert #27966 Manhattan, 8/28/00, died at 123 Allen St., age 2 months, father Jacob, born Roumania, Helen Cohen (wife of Morris) died 5/9/87 age 90 grandmother mother Pauline, born Roumania, died from gastroenteritis. and great-grandmother Jacob Finkelstone undertaker, 352 - 2nd Ave., N. Y. , N.Y., Jeffrey Cohen grandson of above AbrahamJaroshefsky Row2Gr3 died 8/31/1900 age 30 Father and brother death cert #27965 Henrietta Spier did4/19/1880 age 61 mother Manhattan, died at Bellevue Hospital of cerebral embolism, 8130100, not buried until 9/8/1900, age 30, married, occupa- Henry C. Becker died 7/22/64 born 1891 tion laborer, born in Russia, in U. S. and N. Y. for 6 years, father Michael. mother Ida, cemetery listed as Bayside. Abraham Bender dii1/31/64 grandfather undertaker Jacob Finkeistone, 356-2nd Ave., N. Y. , N.Y. Clara GIuc k death cert #27967 Manhattan, died 9/1/00 at Jacob Jonas died 4120133 born 1912 beloved son 76-1st St.. N. Y. , N.Y., age 2 months and 2 weeks, father Max, mother Sadie, both Austrian, Jacob Finkeistone under- Tesia Jonas wife and mother did2/4/41 age 54 taker. 352-2nd Ave., N. Y. . N.Y. Leopold M. Baum died 12/15/51,56, or 58 Simon We1 ner death cert #27968 Manhattan, died 9/2/00 at 302 Cherry St. of pneumonia. age 15 months. father Aiter and Herman Mainwold, Dr. did 1952 sent by Sy Mainwold, son.

February 1995 Page 11 Volume XV, Number 1 ZichronNote-Journal of the San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society copies of service order and bill #A1 1240 from Sprung Memori- #18 Rebecca Braunstein Rivka daughter of Avram Meiet als, dated 9/18/53, showing burial in Sherman Society in Bay- Reuben died 511886 side Cemetery. Also shows exact date of death as October 3, 1952. Dr. Mainwold was a dentist. Also included are travel #19 Yosef Tuvin $on of Schmuel directions specifying Bayside Mokom Sholom Cemetery. #20 Joseph Turner born 9/28/1832 died 7/20/1888 Goldie Whitestone beloved mother died 11/8/47and hus- band #21 Sophie Hirsh born 10/2/1861died 2/18/1886

Nathan Whitestonedied 12/21/46 #23 Nathan Simon husband and father died 11R5/1885 age 35 Samuel Ehrlich died 12/16/49age 64 brother #25 David isaac Finberg Duvid Yitzhak son of Moisha Picker or Ricker Appel did9/16/45 or 46age 55 Meier died 5/19/1888

Nathan Kellerman died 11/9/37age 75 #27 Tsvi son of Dov Miholivitsh died 5/11/1880

Bertha Cosgrove died 4/24/49 wife #28 Joseph Marks ha-levi died 3/23/??

Joseph Hertzmark died 1/6/37and wife #29 Phillip Minkus

Hannah Hertzmark died 10/26/50 #33 Sarah Goldstein died 4/7/1888

Anna Appel died 1/15/35age 54 #34 Joseph beloved son and brother grave #I Mrs. Rivka daughter of Avraham died May 19. 1888 #35 HershelS. Goldstein no deathdate dear mother #38 Rosie Stark Rokhshe daughter of Zalman died M Charles Nathan died 7/31/1884 age 72 11/13/1882stone has photo embedded

#3 Philip Brody no death date #40 Bertha Wertheim Braneh daughter of Yisroel wife of Kalman Wertheim died 12/8/1877age 51 stone erected by #4 ManiaMordecai son of Avraham died 1112311878 daughter, Rebecca.

#5 Jennie Kli ne born 6/15/1861 died 12/6/1883 #41 Moses Adler

#6SimnPeyser .... son of Meyer born in Guesin (?). P #42 "In memory of Israel beloved husband of Taube (?) 1863 died 10th of Kislev 5M5, 11 /20/1884 Margonins".

#7 Sarah Feigel Lyons died 1/27/1893 #43 Eva Bernheim died 5/1011888 (?) age 76 (?)

#8 Herman Goldstein flsvi) died 2/3/1885 #44 Veronica Schrubhters (?) born 9/12/1862died 12/14/1876 #9 Gttel Lippman died 6/1/1876 age 74 Gitteldaughter of Heri #45 "in memory of my dear mother Rose Kaliski" died 10/2/1875 cef. #!A9282 #10 Aaron son of Louis and Mary.. .. ton (most of surname was illegible except for last 3 letters). Died ... r. (month abbre- #46 Chaie F. Diament wife and mother viated and 1st couple of letters missing) 00/8/1888 #48 Baruch son of Yacov Ha-Cohen died 1876 $11 MerjimBium Miryim died 1885 #49 Dvashe daughter of Tsvi Aryah died 1/25/1885 #I2 Rachel Meyers dear sister nea Stern died 9/25/1878 cert #301625 #I8 Harris Levy died 611 111888 (2nd Tammuz 5648) age #13 ida Stahl died 1885or 1886 22 Tsvi Hersch son of Yakov Moisha Levy

#I4 Hillel Efraimsonof Chaim Fekoyskior Pekoyski 513420 M Selig Johns 3 ms. 12/25/1884 N. Abraham died 8/6/1885 25 Alien

#I7 Esther Wolfe wife of Abraham Wolfedied 7/6/7875 513397 Harenilek 7 mos 12/24/1884 Abraham Ober- age 29 stein

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513339 Wolf Cohn 5 years 12/24/1884 L. Levy 73-112 516599 Solomon Frledland 3 years 1/28/1885 S. London Essex 57 East Broadway

513272 Morris Simon 65 years 1212411884 A. Rdhman 26 516674 Etta Marcus 4 years 1/28/1885 Meyer Phillips Norfolk 344 E. 55th St.

513093 Won Weinteld 15 years 12/22/1884 1. Jacobson 516656 Sophie Glucksman 54 years 1R811885 A. Goid- 139 E.Bdway. stein 136 ?

513048 Mauritz Vickel72 years 1212111884 M. Levy 135 516598 Barney Haft 1 year 112711885 N. Abrams 25 E. 29th St. Allen

513042 Gustave Beck 20 days 12/21/1884 S. Rimmer 516377 Simon Marks 59 years 1/25or 1/24/1885 1 Davidson 187 25th & 1st 513038 Mary Moses 27 years 1212111884 lsidore Beck- stein 636 E. 9th 513444 Joseph We1 ner 33 years 12/25/1884Heebrahn 25 Alien 513025 Rosa Harris 3 years 12/21/1884 M. Philippe 394 E.55th 512958 Abram Weber 85 years 12/21/1894 L. Levy 73- 112 Essex 513021 Henry Weiss 2years 12/2lor 12/20/1884 Simon Schwartz 144Stiffolk Postscript We have recently received a copy of an exten- 513407 Feila A brams 55 years 12/22/1884 Hart Binder sive newspaper article Resting in Peace? by Deena 842 3 Yellin, Correspondent for The Jewish Week , pub- 512958 Abram Weber 85 years 12121/1884 L. Levy 73- lished in the December 1622,1994 edition. It gives 112 Essex more information on the subject and includes quotes on the issue from all of the interested parties, includ- 512932 Adolph Zabupski 68 years 12/21/1884 Freeboret ing: David Jacobson, the cemetery's chief executive B. 3rd Ave bet 122 8123 St. 58 St. Marks and caretaker; Rabbi Eichonon Zohn, director of the Rabbinic Council of Queens' burial society; Ralph 513444 Joseph Weiner 33 years 12/25/1884 Heebrahn 25 Perfuto, Director of New York State's Division of Allen Cemeteries; early members of Derech Amuno; and genealogists Marmor, Gevertzman, and Priever. If 513445 Karolin Schlesinger 40 years 12/26/1884 David you desire further information, or plan to take any Peite 175 Clinton action in this matter, please obtain a copy of this very balanced and well-written article. Please send a 513492 Hanne Alexander 43 years 12@6)1884A. Lisouer 6e Attorney St. self-addressed stamped envelope to Bob Weiss in care of ZichronNote for a copy, or pick one up at 513673 Henry Mayers 32 years 12/28/1884J. Bickstein our next meeting. E. 9thSt.

513713 Taube Leschies ky 73 years 12/28/1884 Louk Sacramento Cemetery Records Bmks 33 E. Bway. Dear Friends of History: The Old City Cemetery at 10th and Broadway 513741 Moses Saphor 8 months 12/29/1884 Sam Loader [Sacramento, CAI is going through changes. Please Bayside 132118 Pine St. write to try to keep the Death Books in the Archives in Old City Cemetery. Many genealogical societies 513768 Kathii Gensles 57 years 12/29/1884 SI. Czlyght 284 Phcap use them. Also encourage keeping the cemetery 513927 Jennie Schen 30 years 1213011884 Judas Juline beautiful. In 1870 it was a park-like setting. Write or Sarelan 27 Se? FAX to support adequate watering to: Sam Burns, Director Convention and Visitors Department 516865 Joseph Lyon 3 rnos. 1/30/1885 S. Katz 402 E. 1030 15th Street, Suite 250 Sacramento, CA 95814 8th Tel: 916-264-8109, FAX 916-264-7687. Your friend in genealogy, Dr. Patricia M. Stan- 516786 Challes GI uck 1 year 1/29/1885 Joel Gottenhill ford, 943 Commons Drive Sacramento, CA 95825, Bayside Cem. 87 Columbia Tel: 91 6-929-5825

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appointment with us. With advanced notice you can view copies of the Ver:eichni.r.se der wuhlfcrhigen hfit,gliederdcr Judi- Berlin Jewish Archives schen Gerneinde :u Berlin. [Catalog of Selected (?) by lrwin Keller Membersof the Berlin Jewish Community] for years 1883, 1886, 18&9. 1892, 1898, 1904, 1907 and While in Berlin in September, I attempted to do 1910.1 some family history research. Some wild goose At the Berlin-Weissensee Jewish Cemetery, Her- chasing led me to the new home of the Gesamtarchiv bert-Baumstr. 45, 13088 Berlin (Tel. %5 3330) is derDeutschen Juden, or at least its home address. It the complete index of interments from 1880 through is physically held off-site (three hours away), and its the present. The associated files with further infor- index is off-site as well (only one hour away). mation regarding the burials and the deceased are The archivist gave me an information sheet. Fol- currently being restored and filmed and are therefore lowing is my best attempt at atranslation: not accessible. We foresee that microfiche of these files will exist by the middle of 1995. "Information for Family History Researchers Among the files of the Grsumturchiv tlcr Unfortunately we do not have at our disposal old drutschen Juden [Comprehensive Archive of Ger- membership cards of the Berlin Jewish Community man Jews], which we manage jointly with the fed- or Jewish vital statistics index. eral archive, Potsdam division, and which currently There is a printed edition of Judisches Adress- are still stored off-site at the federal archive in Cos- buchficr Gross-Berlin (Jewish Address Book for wig, there are virtually no vital statistics records Greater Berlin], published in 1929130 and 1931. remaining. These address books are available for viewing at our The supplemental index of the census from May in-house Jewish Community Library (open Monday 17, 1939 (earlier known as Sippenkurfri IKinship 10AM-noon and 1-6:30PM and Thursday 10AM- Index]) is currently at the Federal Archive. Potsdam noon and I-4PM) or in the Community Center Division, Berliner Str. 98-101 Box 600 447, Library on Fasanenstrasse 79/80 (Monday through (PO Thursday 11AM-8PM and Friday 1 IAM-3PM). 14404 Potsdam), Tel. 033 113 140. Beside it is a joint volume of Judenburgerbucher You can find deportation lists (in combination der Stadt Berlin 1809-18.51 mit Erguniungen ficr die with property confiscation prior to Deportations and Jahre 1791-1809 [Berlin Jewish Citizen Books for from Emigrants) at the Lclridrsurchiv Berlin [Berlin 1809-1851, with 1791-1809 supplement] (pub. Ber- National Archive[, Kalckreuthstrasse 1-2, 10777 Berlin. Also at the knde.sarchiv is the Berlin lin, 1962); as well as Judische Truuungen in Berlin 17-59-1813,mit Ergunzungenfur die Juhre von Municipal Court registry of "Jews and Dissidents" 1723-17.59 [Jewish Maniages in Berlin 1759-1809, for the years 1847-1874 as well as microfilms of some portions of the Berlin Jewish community. with 1723- 1759 supplement] (pub. Berlin, I%@. The Gedenkbuchjir die Opfer der Verfolgung After the introduction of the Sfundesamter der Juden unter der nationalsozialisti.schen (Registry Offices on Oct. 1, I874 in Prussia, all Gewalthe~.~chafiin Deut.sch1and 1933-1945 vital statistics information was directed there. For [Memorial Book for Victims of the Persecution of each Berlin district there is an independent Registry Jews under the Nazi Tyranny in Germany, 1933- Office. The Berlin-Mitte district's Registry Office is 194.51, two volumes, (pub. Koblenz Federal located at Alexanderplatz 1,10787 Berlin. Archive, 1986) isavailable in the libraries as well. Answers to inquiries regarding reparations can be Unfortunately it has numerous errors and covers found at the LLtndcsve~valtungsutnfBcrlin [National only Berlin and the old West Germany area. Cur- Administration OfficeIBerlin I, Reparations Depart- rently, through a project of the Central Institute for ment, Postsdamer Strasse 186, 10783 Berlin. Sociological Research at the Berlin Free University, Films of the Jewish vital statistics index can also an updated edition is being prepared. be found in the Deutschen Zrn.frul.sfellefurGmralo- On-site we have exit cards for the Berlin Jewish gie [German Genealogy Center], Kathe-Kollwitz- Community (from the 1870s) and an index of com- Strasse 82,04109 Leipzig, as well as in the Federal munity members after 1945. Please understand that. Archive, Potsdam Division, and in the Jewish for the protection of these individuals and this infor- Museum, Frankfurt am Main, [Jntermainkai 14115 mation, you cannot view the index itself. We 603 11 FrankfurtfMain (for the new Federal lands instead request that you submit your questions in and the former Eastern territory) as well as in the old writing (with the most exact names and information Federal lands at any given time in the local State of the person sought as possible) or set up an Archive. June 1994, Barbara WelkerArchivist"

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1900 in Glasgow, Scotland, sailed from Antwerp, Belgium, to New York for the Red Star Line, canied Get On-Line With JEWISHGEN 1140 passengers, 600 of them in steerage, and was Anyone with a computer, modem and access to ~~nvertedto atroo~shi~, torpedoed and sunk during Internet now also has access to a worldwide Jewish WWI. If this type of information intrigues you, then genealogy mail list called JEWISHGEN, recently read on. formed by a joining of JEWISHGEN (Fidonet) with There are several excellent sources for obtaining its Internet counterpart ISRAEL.GENEALOGY, information about, and photos of, these ships. Write forming a single large world-wide message base. to the following sources, asking if such photos are ~f you subscribe, all JEWISHGEN messages available for your family's ships. Be sure to provide will be sent to your computer mailbox (sometimes as the exact name of the ship, ports travelled to and many as 25 in a group). Messages you send will be from, and the date of the voyage (successor ships distributed to subscribers, usually within 24 hours. sometimes get the same names and You want to be There is no charge for subscribing, however, you Sure to get the correct one.) may be subject to local Internet send and receive Peabody & Essex Museum, Ms. Kathy charges, local phone charges, or time charges by Flynn, Dept. of Photography, East India Square, your service provider. Salem, MA 10970,508-745-1876. They will send It is easy to subscribe and unsubscribe (if you YOU a ~hotoco~~of the photo they have, along with decide the mail list doesn't suit you). To subscribe, Some information about the ship, and the cost. (An send Internet message to: 8x10 blackand white photos cost from $12 to $20 "listserv8israel.nysernet.org" plus $2.50 postage, and $10 more if a negative must Write a single line message: be made.) "sub jewishgen your-firstname your-lastname" Hapag-Lloyd A.G., Postfach 102626,2000 You will get a confirmation message. If you are get- Hamburg 1. Germany. If the ship You are research- ting charged by the message, it is suggested that you lng belongs to Hamburg-American Line of the Lloyd combine daily messages by replying to the confirma- Line, the successorcomPanY, Ha~ag-Llo~dA.G. tion message with the following single line: might be able to help you obtain a photo of the ship. "set jewishgen mail digest" Deutsches Schiffahrts Museum, Van Ron- Address messages for posting to all subscribers to: zelen Strasse 285, Bremerhaven-~itte,Gemany, & "[email protected]" Museum fir Hamburgishe Geschichte (From Morasha, newsletter of the JGS of Illinois, D2000, Hamburg 36, Holstenwall 24, Germany Vol. X No. 1, Spring 1994.) may be able to help you with information about ships of other German flag lines. Library of Congress On-Line Lloyd's Shipping Register, Lead Librarian, Computer users can now access 15 million records ~i~~ street, ~~~d~~ EC 3~ HA, ~~~l~~d.some from Library of Congress Information Systems of the Lloyd's Shipping Register is in the New York (LOCIS) catalogs via Internet free of charge (except public ~ib,.~~as well. for any local telephone charges). Services on LOCIS The Mariners Museum, Ms. Charlotte Valen- are available Monday through Friday 6:30AM to tine, Assistant Archivist, Research Library and 9:30PM, Saturday 8:00AM to 5:00PM. and Sunday Archives, 100 Museum Drive, Newport News, Vir- 1:OOPM to 5:00PM EST.(Reunions, via The Fumil~ ginia 23606.3759, 804-595-0368. If they have the Tree, and Lineage, Summer 1994) photograph you're interested in, they will reply to your inquiry with the catalog number and a price list. The price of an 8x 10 black and white photo is $12; if you have to order a negative, add $35 to the cost. Have You Seen Your Rubbe's Ship? Steamship Historical Society of America by Linda Cantor Collection, University of Baltimore Library, 1420 From the Summer-Fall 1993 Llneage Maryland Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21201-5779, 410-625-3134. It has 60,000 ship prints, 30,000 Do you know the name of the ship Bubbe or negatives, 25,000 printed postcards, and an exten- Zaide came on to America? Do you have a photo- sive collection of books on historic steamships. It is graph of that ship? Do you know where or when it open Monday-Friday, 84,and is a wonderful was built, where it travelled, or how it ended its library to browse. Copies of pictures may be pur- days? For example, the Vaderland, the ship on chased by mail. The SHSA charges $10.00 for an which my grandfather sailed to America in 1910, 8"xIO" black and white photo plus $10 additional if was the second ship with this name. It was built in a negative is required.

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4. Jewish Genealogy: The Basic Sources This chapter, of some 160 pages, contains new- ly-added material which probably makes the revised From Generation to Generation edition worth purchasing. Although poorly organ- by Arthur Kurzweil ized, of uneven treatment, and already a bit dated, this chapter introduces the beginning Jewish geneal- This is a revised and updated edition of the clas- sic beginner's manual for Jewish genealogy. Sub- ogist to the sources and resources he will find of greatest use as he transitions from U.S. to European titled How to Trace vour Jewish Genealogy and Fmily History , this update and reprinting has been records . long awaited in view of advances in the availability Mr. Kurzweil presents a catalog of Avota,vnu publications complete with (already outdated) prices of data sources since its first printing in 1980. and address. It is unfortunate that he does not men- The book, re-organized into nine major sections, tion that most of these materials are available for the is much more easily used by the beginning research- use of beginning genealogists at most local Jewish er than its predecessor. It is written in a personal Genealogical Societies. way, and is easy to read-with frequent examples He includes a selected index for the first eight from the author's genealogical experiences. Some of years of publication of Avolaynu (an excellent the more contentious issues of the previous version research aid) and later refers to the local JGS dealing with women's role in Jewish genealogy and newsletters, "...most notably the Los Angeles Jew- the shortcomings of a peer's book have been thank- ish Genealogical Society, the Jewish Genealogical fully omitted. But deletion of the short section on Society of Cleveland, and the Jewish Genealogical Sephardic research leaves an important void. Society of New York." These publications Roots I will structure my review along lines of the Key, The Cleveland Kol, and Doror are but three chapter headings of the book. out of many of high quality publications, including 1. These Are the Generations: Climbing Up Mishpchu, ZichronNote, Lineage, Shem Tov, My Family Tree Chronicles .The indexes to most of these publica- Mr. Kurzweil relates the joys and satisfactions tions may be found on the 24-microfiche set Puhlica- he derived from his genealogical research, and this tions ofthe Jewish Genealogical Societies also first chapter is a delightful instructional and inspira- found at your local JGS meeting site. tional introduction for the beginning Jewish genealo- Why use space to talk about Toledot, out of print gist. The author wisely omits the 38 pages of read- for over ten years, without presenting an index to the ings on Jewish genealogy which were included in "pleasing, popular, and useful" articlesfound in this his previous edition. publication? And the brief listing of special interest group (SIG) publications omits the grandmother of 2. How to Begin Your Search them all. Landsmen ,publication of the Suwalk- This section remains an excellent prescription Lomza Interest Group for Jewish Genealogists. for the beginning genealogist, describing how to Six pages of Family Finder ads from the Spring start with information available from family sources. 1993 Avotuvnu are presented where one would suf- fice to illustrate this form of networking. The begin- 3. Checking the Records ner should be advised to place an ad in the newsletter Brief discussions of the major record sources in the area his quarry lived. include updated names and addresses of the National One of the most useful additions to the revised Archives Regional Archives. Reference to the book version of Mr. Kurzweil's book is the slightly The Archives: A Guide to the National Archives updated version of "Bibliography of Jewish Gene- FieldBranches would have been relevant here. This alogy", by Rabbi Malcolm Stem z"l which appeared omission illustrates a majorflaw in the book. There in the Spring 1991 Avotayzu . Mr. Kurzweil's are too few references to general research sources updates from the 1991 version of this list consisted which are of great help to the Jewish researcher. of adding Alice Eichoitz'sAnce.srrv'.s Red Book and Discussions of vital records without mention of The David Zubatsky's second volume to his Jewish Source or Ancestv's Redbook does a dis-service Genealogy to the list, and in updating the publisher to the beginning genealogist, Jewish or gentile. Any and date of his own book. He missed the fact that discussion of the use of public or university libraries Search had gone out of print, that the 1920 census for research should include a discussion of the inter- had been released, and that Mr. Zubatsky had also librarv loan (ILL) svstem as well as the means of issued another wonderful reference, Jewish Autohi- searchg the holdiGgs of remote libraries through ographies and Biographies-An International Bihli- OCLC and RLIN. ogruph,y of Books and Di.ssertutions, in '1 989.

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Other omissions in referenced sources bothered 6. Holocaust Research: To Give Them Back this reviewer. The brief discussion of mohel books Their Names cites the collections at the Leo Baeck Institute and This chapter was slightly expanded from its the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish original, mainly in the areas of availability of pages People, but not those of the JewishTbeological of testimony from the Yad Vashem, and the very Seminary of New York and the Jewish National and valuable services of Batya Unterschatz of the Jewish University Library. These latter collections have Agency Search Bureau for Missing Relatives in Jer- been indexed by community in the May 1992 and usalem. It should also have been upgraded with Feb 1994 issues of ZichronNote respectively. The respect to using the local Red Cross offices to pro- discussion of Hebrew subscription lists stops with cess International Tracing Service inquiries, the the Kagen list, with no mention of "volumes two slowness of their response, and the availability of and three" by Shlomo Katzov, and of the work the ITS index in the Yad Vashem Archive. The being done to augment these works by Patrick Gor- chapter is, however, a good introduction to the sub- dis and Chiam Freedman. ject. The updated yizkor book list is a valuable addi- tion to the book with its inclusion of bibliographical 7. Your Immigrant Ancestors data on the references. Shtetl names and countries, This chapter remains as it was, an excellent however, do not correspond to current spelling and introduction to the history of immigration, related political boundaries, forcing use of Where Once We documents, and how to obtain them. Wulked to enable their location on modem maps. The list of collections of yizkor books is incomplete 8. The Old Country in two important respects. There is a substantial col- This chapter has been updated to reflect the pub- lection in the Price Library of Judaica, University of lication of that magnificent tool for locating your Florida which is available through interlibrary loan, relative's shtetl, Where Once We Walked. This making it valuable to researchers not near a large would have been a wonderful place to show, by local collection. The other omission is of importance example, the power of the Daitch-Mokotoff East to our Northern California readers. The Holocaust European Soundex to help locate the shtetl for which Center of Northern California in San Francisco has a you have only a phonetic spelling, or a spelling no collection exceeding 600 yizkor and memorial longer used. This knowledge would help the begin- books. And in indicating how to obtain yizkor ner better use Beider, the Russian Consular Records books, the author omits purchasing from book deal- Index, WOWW, etc. ers, such as Robinson, Dzialowski, Mass, Schreib- Other welcome updates include information on er, etc. travel to Eastern Europe and obtaining records from The list of Jewish Genealogical Societies in this archives of the Commonwealth of Independent chapter is woefully out of date. Granted that it is an States. impossible task to keep up with the current addresses of JGSs that have yearly elections, one 9. Jewish Cemeteries would think that a book copyrighted in 1994 could This excellent chapter remains substantually have a list more up to date than 1991. One third of unchanged. It is a good treatment of the subject, and the addresses are incorrect, 5 non-existing societies includes details on translating Hebrew dates and are listed, and 13 existing societies are not listed. some inscriptions. Noteworthy is the existence of JGSs in Australia, Brazil, Russia, and Lithuania. This would have also Appendix: A Family History Workbook been a good place to include the names of the JGSs' The appendix presents excellent advice to the publications, since much of the networking the new researcher on organizing his research, with genealogist will be doing will be through this medi- some forms which can be reproduced and used daily um. Dropping of the section on Sephardic research, 5. The Names in Your Family history, and sources in the revision of this book was This fine introduction was updated with a cita- a mistake. But a much more grievous failing of the tion of two new references on Jewish surnames- book is the ignoring of the benefits available in using one by Alexander Beider and the other by Heinrich a computer for genealogy. There is more to the snb- and Eva Gngenheimer. The beginner should have ject than the selection of a computer, and Avotaynu been instructed as to how to use Beider to inves- is not the place to send a novice for advice in this tigate location of his family as well as name mean- matter. As a minimum the benefits should have been ing. It is a doubly-useful reference. explained of using a computer for recording family

February 1995 Page 17 Volume XV, Number 1 ZichronNote-Journal of the San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society history data, for searching databases and library cat- called Turkey: 500 Years of Sephurciic Ljfe departs alogs on-line, for networking with other genealo- on May 15, 1995. The trip, arranged by Nob Hill gists, for sharing data through the Jewish Genealog- Travel Service, includes stops in Istanbul, Ankara. ical People Finder and the Reit Hatefutsoth Dorot Sardis, Izmir, and Cannakale. Cost is $2.995 per Jewish Genealogical database, and for publishing person, double occupancy in deluxe hotels and your family history. If only one piece of advice was includes round-trip airfare from the West Coast and given in Mr. Kurzweil's book it should have been: most meals. For information, call Estelle Alberts of Make sure that any program you use has GEDCOM Nob Hill Travel Service at (415) 391-8630. capability. I wholeheartedly recommend this book to new Upcoming Genealogical Seminars Jewish genealogists. Its scope and depth are good despite the failings mentioned above. Assuming that Mar 10-11 Following Paper Trails Across the novice associates with a JGS and starts using the the Continents, California Genealogical Socie- available resources, he will quickly fill in the holes ty's 10th Annual Family History Fair, San Fran- in the book. I would not recommend that the owner cisco, CA. See enclosed brochure for details. of the early edition purchase the revised version. Contact CGS, P.O. Box 77105, San Francisco The additions are available elsewhere in a more up- CA 94107-0105,415-777-9935 Wed. Thu, Sat. t~datestate. May 3-6 A Place to Explore, National From Generation to Generation Revised Edition Genealogical Society and San Diego Genealogical by Arthur Kurzweil, 1994, HarperCollins Publish- Society at Town & Country Hotel, San Diego, ers, New York, NY, 388 pages is available from the CA. Contact NGS, 4527 17th Street N, Arlington publisher for $27.50, with volume discounts avail- VA 22207-2399,703-525-00.50 able if purchased through your local JGS. Jun 25-29 D.C. Discoveries-Fozcrteenth Book Briefs Summer Seminar on Jewish Genealogy, The August, 1994 issue of The Kosher Koala Sponsored by the AJGS and Hosted by the JGS includes a three-page listing of books of interest to of Greater Washington, DC. See enclosed Jewish family historians. The listing covers books brochure for details. Contact Roberta Solit, 9024 Falls Chapel Way, Potonlac, MD 208-S4.301- on Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Russia, Slovakia, -669 Bohemia, Moravia, and Czechoslovakia. 762-8 199, FAX 301 -251 1. Sep 20-23 From Sea to Shining Sea, Bridges to an American Ciy: A Guide to Chicago's Federation of Genealogical Societies Seminar, Landsmanshufrcn, 1870-I990 by Sid Sorkin (Peter Seattle, WA. Contact FGS Business Office, Lang Publishing, Inc., 62 West 45th St., New P.O. Box 3385, Salt Lake City UT 841 10.3385 York, NY 10036: 480 pp, $68.85). Reviewed in Mirhpachu Summer 1994. Baltic Travelogue The Golden Gate Geographic Society hosts travel movies narrated by the photographers. The Society will be hosting a film on the Baltic countries in Eastern Europe & Turkey Tours March. The film will be shown on different days in Nob Hill Travel Service announce two upcoming all Bay Area counties between March 2 and 19. For trips of potential interest to readers. The first, information on the dates and times (and cost-. about Explore Your Jewish Roots: Eastern Europe- Cra- $6) call the number for your area (between 9.330, dle of Modern Jewish Culture is a 19day tour M-F): San Francisco and Peninsula (415) 347- departing July 9. The cost of this tour is $3275 per 3636; Marin, Sonoma, Napa. Alameda, Contra person, double occupancy, and includes round trip Costa and Santa Clara counties call (800)247-4447. air fare from the West Coast and most meals. The (Submitted by Lillian Wurzel) tour will include visits to synagogue sites, Jewish neighborhoods, and Holocaust sites in Warsaw, AVOTAYNU Address Change Krakow, Budapest and Prague. The tour will be led Avofa.vnu, The Association of Jewish Genealogical by Rabbi Steven A. Chester of Temple Sinai of Oak- Societies, Gary Mokotoff, The Jewish Genealogical land. Family Finder, and the Jewish Genealogical People The second tour announced is a trip to Turkey Finder have moved. Their new address and phone that will be led by Congregation Emanu-El's Cantor number are: 155 N. Washington Avenue, Bergen- Roslyn Barak. The 12-day Jewish heritage tour field, NJ 0762 1. Voice phone 20 1-387-7200 and FAX 201-3W-2855. Orders I -800-AVOTAY NkJ.

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but had procrastinated. 1 made excuses: "I'm too busy." "I don't have family in the area." "I've listed my names in the national family finder and Family Finder Ads Work haven't received one response, why would I get a By Sharon Fingold response through a local ad." etc, etc. Don't wait!! Looking for missing members of yourfamily? Submit your ad now. You never know; you too Have you tried a family finder ad in this newsletter? may find whole new branches of your family!! I finally took advantage of a wonderful sewice our And, if nothing else convinces you to do it, remem- society offers free to members and at minimal cost to ber: Ads are FREEfor members! non-members. I put three family finder ads in the last issue of Dear Mr. Weiss: our newsletter. I submitted an ad for three branches The consolidated index anived today. Thank you of my family that had California connections. In my very much for doing the work, making it available, ads, I listed parents' names and their children. I and sending it to me. Its format is clear and concise gave the names of in-laws too. 1 received responses and useful, and its coverage is extensive. 1 am to two of the ads and through those responses con- impressed! nected to new branches of my family. In both I do think I will get myself a box of thank you cases, I received a response because of the in-law notes and address them to you and the SFBA JGS names! because you are always providing assistance to me. In one ad, I announced my interest in the (In between helping others, I hope you have time for GOLDENs of St. Paul, MN. My grandmother had your own research.) lost touch with her Golden cousins 50 years ago. I Many Thanks. mentioned that one Golden had mamed a SIPKINS. Mary Tonya Young Luckily for me, Len Traubman was interested in the Tonya: SIPKINS name. He gave me a call. After we You are very welcome. The 40-page Consoli- talked he used his Minnesota connections to track dated index of 13 years of the SFBA JGS Newslet- down some Sipkins for me. He found one for me in ters and ZichronNotes is available by mailfor $3.3.00, Palm Springs. The person I talked to in Palm and at meetingsfor $1.50. The complete archive Springs turned out to be the cousin of a Golden rela- with indexes has been microfched by the LDS and tion and he was able to give me her phone number in should be uvuilable at local LDS Family History Minnesota. Thanks to Len and the Sipkins cousin- Libraries. Ask for Fiches #60759.36 & 7. in-law. I was able to connect~ ~ with a Golden relative. Rnh weha;e shared information and 1 hope to learn lots more about that branch of the family. (Thanks Ien!!) In another ad, I announced my search for descendants of Louis and Lena EPSTEIN. I listed Lillian Miller Bernstein, 104 Mandela Court, Walnut all of their children and I listed their daughters' mar- Creek. CA 945%. Tel. 510.935- 1822. Searching ried names. One daughter married a BARBANELL. for members of the SMITH family who arrived- Someone who read our newsletter saw the name from Boguslav ("Boslev"),south of Kiev in Barbanell and called a friend with that name in San Ukraine, at the turn of the century. The family Francisco. Cliff Barbanell called me and told me I included three girls: Birdie, Anna, and Millie. I have had listed his aunt! Cliff called his brotherwho was a picture of Millie dated October 3 1,1926 with the able to provide an Epstein name and phone number note "Here I am on my 19th birthday". I believe the in Southern California. I called the Epstein number, father of the family was the brother of my grand- found a whole new branch of the family and, after a mother MaryIMerlelMiriam Smith BRODSKY. The number of phone calls to many Epstein relations, Brodsky family lived in Plymouth and Chelsea, discovered a second cousin two times removed just Mass. 3 miles from my house!! (Turns out he and I had attended the same wedding 5 years ago!) The only Henrv Birnbrey, 1501 Regency Walk Drive, Deca- "bad thing 1 can say about the results of the Epstein tur, GA 30033, Tel404-633-3564. Seeking infor- ad is that I have tons of follow-uplthank you letters mation on BERNSTEIN family from Stettin, to write. Many thanks to the person who helped me Germany. 1 believe his first name was ALFONS connect to the Epsteins via C. Barbanell! and the maiden name of either wife or mother was I had been thinking about submitting some ads BIRNBREY or BIRNBREI. Emigrated to San ever since I became a member (4 or 5 years ago!), Francisco about 1920- 1930.

February 1995 Page 19 Volume XV, Number 1 ZichronNote The Journal of the San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society Volume XV, Number 1 February 1995 Major Articles Hispanic Genealogy -Sources of Interest to Sephardic Researchers Speakers Norma Flores & Patsy Ludwig (SFBA JGS December 1994 meeting) Robert Weiss 4 Gaucher Disease, Speakers Kim Hart & Dr. Seymour Packman (SFBA JGS October 1994 Meeting) Jerry Delson 5 Update on iJ.S. Cemetery Project Arline Sachs 6 Relatives Buried in Mokom Shalom or Bayside Cemeteries, NYC? Florence Marrnor 8 Berlin Jewish Archives Irwin Keller 14 Have you Seen Your Bubbe's Ship? (from Lineage ) Linda Cantor 15 Review of From GenerafiontoGenerafion by Arthur Kurzweil Robert Weiss 16

Departments Local Calendar of Events 1 Genealogical Computing The Society Page 2 Research Aids Past Meeting Summaries 4 Book Reviews U. S. & Canadian Research 6 Readers Page European Research 14 Famii y Finder Contributers to this issue: Jerry Delson, Sharon Fingold, Irwin Keller, Sita Likusky, Ruth Mayo, Lillian Wurzel

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